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unproduciblesmackdown · 6 months
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billions not letting up on this an inch for 2.5 seasons like
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nothingunrealistic · 8 months
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stock down like a falling knife: tayston
stock down but only after significant volatility that had me thinking it might go the other way for a while: riawin
stock down not because of anything that happened between them but because of my deeply diminished respect for them as individuals and as a unit: taylip
stock up: winstuk
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will-davision · 1 year
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Watching billions rn BUT GOD this this make me fucking laugh
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"How on the world did they think that was actually going to happen?"
Idk man... idk....
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bootydragonart · 1 year
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More pose practice! Ria is unable to perform Magic, so she is skilled in martial arts
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for ship bingo, tayston and whichever other taylor ship(s) you have sufficiently strong opinions about
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Listen. I was so ride-or-die for Tayston in the beginning. The sexual tension in the quant basement was so real. The potential for their dynamic is still off the charts. But I have to admit that the "go girl give us nothing" -ness of the last two seasons has dampened it a bit for me? Not as bad as it did Riawin, but the constant reminders that Taylor Canonically Does Not Like Or Even Professionally Care About Winston makes it hard for me to be like "Oh boy I hope we get another Taylor/Winston scene." They're still Taylor And Their Right-Hand Funny Little Guy Winston" in my imagination, but in real life I am so tired.
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painted-blackbird · 2 years
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I’m not dead! I’ve just been working on getting a whole bunch of content prepped so I can post regularly for a long time lol. Which should be ready pretty soon! So keep an eye out for that ;)
Meanwhile, happy Riawin day! Yes, not only am I celebrating my OCs birthdays, but they get ship days too. No I don’t feel bad about it in the slightest lol
I love these two honestly. They’ve been underrepresented in my head for ages, but they’re finally starting to bounce around a little more often. They’re whole dynamic is basically wholesome sunshine child x edgy lone wolf man, with a healthy dose of deadpan eyebrow raises from Riah, and Merwin being incredibly flustered with reasonable bc his GF is very pretty. Also worth noting that Riah is 5’2 and Merwin is 6’2, so they’ve got a smol/tol thing going on and I love that for them XD
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alittlelessalone · 4 years
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Just to add to the comparison of Winston and Jeremy, I give you the “I’m totally smitten and love listening to you talk about the things you’re excited by” look.
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neverheardnothing · 3 years
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imagine i am saying this with my face in my hands and the words are muffled and you almost didnt hear me but you did but you wish you didnt
riawin vsinder meet cute au
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a-clockwork-justice · 3 years
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Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Billions (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rian/Winston (Billions) Characters: Winston (Billions), Wendy Rhoades (mentioned), Bobby Axelrod (mentioned), Taylor Mason, Rian (Billions) Additional Tags: Character Study, Mr Schrödinger P. Bastard, Winston has a cat and I would die for him, Canon Compliant, then again there's so little canon on Winston that we can do almost anything with him, self-projection, Loneliness, Stimming, Autistic Winston (Billions), Which is canonical even if they won't confirm it beyond yelling ableist slurs, References to Alan Turing, and Winnie the Pooh, References to a cut song from Dear Evan Hansen, Winston is touch-starved, Lonely/touch-starved Winston lives in my head rent free, there will be no more than 15 people reading this and i talk to pretty much all of them, Autism Spectrum, Drowning, Bullying, Parental Death, Depression, Eating Disorders, Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, Winnie the Pooh is evil, Flashbacks, Riawin, Mentioned Stagedorks, Touch-Starved, Cuddling & Snuggling, Grief/Mourning, Bisexual Winston (Billions), Bisexual Rian (Billions), Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Catharsis, Hot Chocolate Summary:
"The observation by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning (which is high-level in humans) requires very little computation, but sensorimotor skills (comparatively low-level in humans) require enormous computational resources."
Or: Winston Needs Therapy And/Or A Hug. A Very Long One
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unproduciblesmackdown · 6 months
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Taylor and their quants.
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unproduciblesmackdown · 8 months
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made a post that won't show up on dash nor in my tags but what if i link to it ; backup posts of visual zesty quantent in there
backup posts got Got in ways that virtually guarantee shit was bot detected, looking at that post that tumblr's working on like the ability to find Similar Images to suggest posts & sure wondering if this kind of feature can look at technicolor illustrations & kick up a "fucking????" association/analysis and autoflag it, b/c it's not the tbt [any gifs with people could be flagged. or just any gifs] deal
anyways so now i'm backing them up intricately via ao3 instead. got the couple of crucial images in there and although past posts are fine might add more for kicks later. link here though it's an ao3-logged-in special for now, really primarily Backup to me
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enjoy some pencil drawings for once
screenshot study and what amounts to a conceptual illustration of a writing idea
#bravely Didn't try working on the ol wip last night; drawing program needed the laptop restarted anyways; dicked around thusly#like Yes i wanna draw my funny little guy who is the heart & brain's default lately (last several years) nice to do anyways#and naturally imo you can see the [been working on that animatic] influence. don't often manage to draw a thusly stylized winston#he would have the winstache here theoretically but no way was i trying to draw that in lol. nigh guaranteed erasing & v little space for it#for the erasing i mean. further disclosures for Interest: negligable / par for the course digital cleaning up includes getting rid of Some#stray marks like particularly annoying out of place specks. hard to do any of that & pick a stopping point though. yet i did...#more significant tweaks were moving winston's mouth up & one pupil iris Mark over both by like 5 pixels tops lol. still better =)#& then naturally the second pic's Colors are all added digitally. texture & that like shade gradient from top to bottom are courtesy of just#the lighting in the pics picking up paper texture / being itself uneven so there was more shadow further down....#pic one only had lighting & contrast adjustments (slight increase on both)....i don't think any of this was very interesting lol but hey.#winston billions#corned beef#technically:#riawin#i don't know if i quite adequately indicated winston as upset in a frustrated kind of genre as well lol....#but then i reacted afresh to The Pic as i was adding the colors like ah it conveys the intended emotion To Me...& i am the intended audience#could look like oh he's just like very elevatedly & transparently like ''ah jeeeez *Eye* messed up [pensive]'' lol but isnt meant to be so..#hand on back of head not to be sheepish or chastened but rather an ''agh christ i wanged the back of my head'' kneejerk reaction lmao#for once in our lives the fun lil stars are the comic strip language of Oof Ouch Physical Pain indication#the other half of [reacting to what literally just happened / has arisen] being like And spilt my drink on my self#and b/c it's winston & it's his life there May be undercurrents of ''ah jeez. did *i* mess up here / so as to be at Ultimate Fault''#that is the assumed interpretation of Anyone Else at him at any time. [Autistic Character Alert] babes....#meanwhile. re: pic one's ref i took the screenshot for whole other fun casual reasons & eventually realized like oh hey fun bust profile. so#an exercise in Shading. which is sure smthing i'm a lot more practiced doing via pencil than digital means
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unproduciblesmackdown · 7 months
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speaking of. winston just so happening to run into rian somewhere & they have an Interaction: maybe originally with winston just largely unusually cagey & reluctant to be interacting much, while it's rian more determined to say Something, but it's fairly brief/cursory & yknow, not interacting w/him as a person b/c she doesn't see him that way / doesn't want to, more of a verbal [pitying pat on the head] At him from the place of superiority
then it's winston's yknow no more than 24 hr timeloop, where he can quickly notice that That was the most seemingly out of place And/Or significant event of the day, and focus on essentially trying to see how like oh here's another chance, rian's actually the one who started out with more active interest / motivation in having an interaction, so that's pretty promising, like, oh if he's more open to it, and then he's the one getting to have these repeat opportunities to trying to actually finally connect, say different things, say the same thing as last time but maybe he didn't quite phrase it the right way or give the perfect delivery to result in her understanding & sympathizing and whatall, like, can get frustrated & avoid the whole encounter entirely, can try to express that frustration & try having an argument instead to try to have some breakthrough & be better understood that way. might get seeming "good" results sometimes, like just getting a chance to talk uninterrupted for a minute, maybe getting some slightly less patronizing "yeah that sucks. sorry" from rian, maybe having one of their precedented, seemingly more amicable/successful interactions in commisserating about anything re: work, maybe times they land on like yeah let's have a phonecall / have lunch / shared interest movie meetups together later....but the loop continues, and winston can feel particularly let down / confused like aw but last time seemed actually & unusually good....
meanwhile the potential element of like, do they ever kiss or hook up or such? first of all, billions canon would never allow someone "worthier" than winston to do this w/him (& of course all the ppl who aren't good enough to Not be lower tier loser nerds also only have dating relationships for women (no loser nerd women here, & meanwhile like yeah the s1 gay guy, who was married, & died. all disastrous) to realize their mistake & dump them), but as soon as you're focusing on winston in his own right you're breaking the rules of billions canon already, so, sure. and it might also never happen. b/c it wouldn't even really change what winston's trying to do already, which is, have a genuine reciprocal connection. spoilers: how that's Always been the case. and like it would be clear from the start that it's just not a very practical goal lol, more of something that could maybe happen when like, just really trying to go all in, put in a lot of effort, try things a little differently, and that's a shakeup that could lead to whatever like more outlier spinoffs. maybe you do start hashing out this history where already the mutual knowledge of winston being down re: rian didn't actually fundamentally change the broader context of actually just wanting to have a basic amicable dynamic. argue about it, have this be something he tries to come back to & "redo" thrice, just trying to be Really Listened To & Understood, maybe sometimes it's like yeah sure yolo what if we'd ever hooked up & what if we did so now, just to both see if there was fuckall sort of catharsis or resolutions or anything in that, and if there's not, what changes, we shrug, & at least got the hookup out of it. but ofc it's not The Key to anything, & it's just clearly not like a viable goal to prioritize steering all the way towards that particular reciprocal connection event....and/or maybe it takes a while to determine this, b/c once it Does seem to lead to Something. hanging out at someone's place, maybe winston's used the logic of like "well if i give someone an orgasm they'll (be more likely to) give me the time of day for 35 seconds to talk to them," maybe it does seem to get him that, maybe they do seem to have some kind of breakthrough with like things getting emotional, personal, serious, deep....But I Still Doesn't Change Things, there's not Really a breakthrough. like the way we've seen rian willing to Tell Winston Things that are earnest & personal, cue 5x07, but it's just still unilateral, she's saying things At him, then cutting down & punishing his attempts to interact in turn, reciprocally, or even within the context of [allowed to have an unequal interaction that keeps a positive tone]....like maybe here she does let him say some stuff, does respond like Huh Yeah Sure. winston just trying to share like his feelings, about a lot of things, about the past few years, about his entire relationship with rian, with taylor, with his whole experience in that office hierarchy, in life prior....not even like oh hey maybe if we have sex & an honest conversation we could Be Together? could be a small distance [maybe...] kind of hope, but i don't think he could even pursue that, based on, again, the context of: where their relationship even is at the start, & that to be at this point of maybe hooking up during the nth loop, winston's tried n minus o (let's say o > n/2) times to break through & Really Connect As People, so he can't have the highest hopes that like, messing around could change things up Enough. but maybe one seeming very different, intense shared aftermath of talking & getting personal & shit happens, & he does get his hopes up about that, even as an outlier, and keep thinking like, if i could back to that situation, maybe there's something i could say, and that'd be the change that sticks
and it isn't, because like, they still don't really connect. sure maybe they could've hooked up sometimes, had pretty amicable (or, let's say, unhostile) conversations sometimes, maybe they can even have what really feels like it should've been this Significant Moment. rian sharing things & winston allowed to say stuff back, Seemingly, but yknow, her having more patience/flexibility, "humoring" him, maybe figuring they Are connecting in turn just b/c of the [well, this is what it'd look like / what it'd feature, right] exterior of it....she ofc doesn't have to listen and care. she can be amused by like this access to someone, find it nonthreatening b/c yknow, sure, we have this exchange, but it's isolated, i can feel "sympathetic" but in a way Above It, i can tell him shit & be gratified in having an audience, but i won't need support from him or any particular response, b/c i'd need to genuinely consider what his response is to do so....i mean, Rian's Relationship Advice where she thinks trust is so important that now she needs The Absence of Trust. it was threatening to Really have to trust someone (sure) so now she needs to have access to all their stuff to dig through it at any time (um,). be like, yolo, play around with [winston's Real Shit dialogue options], say her own real shit At him, perhaps be a little warmer, or just relatively less mean and does that count? and winston could feel like, Wow, surely that was something? there could be more there? i Almost got through to this person? i could've better expressed a deeper essence of a more personal truth? which would all just be shit he could end up thinking after interactions at [whatever location they meet up at] lol. which is why a "they could make out. hook up" route is Apropos but not Necessary. it would Not change things. talking at the store or bar or library or museum or wherever could/would inspire those same considerations. so it doesn't have to happen at all. and also could.
but it comes to the point which is The Point, which is that like, even with this Premise that is rian like, motivated to interact with Him, seemingly also seeking Something out of it, more sympathetic than before, outside fo the office or of really being coworkers....it hasn't changed, and there's nothing winston can do here to really, Really change things such that it still wouldn't basically "reset." because winston dealing with rian, and most people, in canon is very much like a doomed time loop anyways. day in & out & he keeps trying, often in slightly different ways, always with a basic hope & persistence, & his various efforts & approaches & attitudes & seeming moments of "maybe this means they're friends for real / now?" gets him nowhere. b/c rian doesn't see him as a person and won't interact with him in a way similarly striving for actual connection / a real relationship person to person. and where winston would just be in a very similar situation as he was in canon if he was in a literal loop where he really cannot do something "right" to connect with rian, even if her approach to him is at all different & seems more promising. she absolutely would not see him as a peer or be open to any genuine personal interaction or rethink how she'd been towards winston before. and it also just encapsulates winston's experience in general, trying to do things "right" to be treated w/basic respect, let alone like positive personal interest, by the people around him. have the valuable skill, act confident, be loyal, be friendly, take the L's endlessly, act according to other people's terms, acquiesce, apologize, criticize, confront, express his genuine feelings, express his wants & perspective, stop expressing anything b/c he was told to shut up & die, roll with it yolo, walk away, walk over, communicate, communicate a whole other way....it's never changed things with any of the people who were already uninterested in interacting with him person to person. and any better results were with people who were different, and, of course, b/c they wanted to do so, if even b/c they have a more general want to have a basic respect for others in whatever interaction lol. and then there's winston being caught up in how like, rian Is interested in interacting with him at all, just completely on her terms, Not interested in a genuine relationship, not interested in winston having any consistency in the dynamic & not always left adapting to what she does or doesn't want from him moment to moment, emphasis on "from him," it's not reciprocal, if their interaction seems more aligned / nonhostile, it's b/c that's what she wants for this moment, and when she wants him to shut up & go away, that gets to determine what happens just as much
that anyways yeah like over & over again trying to unilaterally change your approach trying to do things "right" this time & earn a breakthrough? that's what winston was already doing. of course he could only walk away. and his relationship with rian was just more of the same, even distilled, elevated....make it a time loop where supposedly he's got this one Especial chance here? where something's different, here's your opportunity, finally, just figure out how to do it right? well what else is new. him Trying over & over, him evidently never giving up entirely / gamely trying Again over & over, with different techniques, trying to smile through it one time, being visibly discouraged another, expressing hurt/frustration another. put it into a time loop where he can even make more dramatic moves and be outside work with it entirely? it still wouldn't be enough. what else is new....gotta walk away again, even if he "can't" lol. just like, do other shit. explore completely different experiences elsewhere, try connecting with other people, try just having his own thing going on, play things by ear, hook up w/somebody somewhere else entirely
like sure maybe the time loop is theoretically For some kind of breakthrough w/rian, but it's wrong. and then like i don't think it ends b/c winston has some discrete "breakthrough" in turn about Giving Up On Rian. can have some loops having interactions with her more in that vein, like, not focusing on any hopes, not trying to "make it work," maybe still kind of exploring, venturing, trying Different things, but more like, detached, observing, picking up on how it's Not working, and not as like notes for what He can do differently, just now like, the facts of how he's thwarted / blocked no matter what he's doing. but like, nobody's ever just flipping a switch like yep Now i've given up on this person happening to change if i just do things the right way, so idk, i think in this case it could simply stop looping Arbitrarily lol, indeed after he's spent a while realizing he should, again, just walk away from this perspective where this relationship changing is really possible, and that's On Him, and a while coming to terms with that, exploring & practicing it a bit, like, can have further interactions, just having that Understanding shift of how like, this person will sometimes take things from you / use you & won't have an actual genuine connection with you, and that's it....spend time & energy & focus on other shit entirely, have a better time, have a better idea of what he wants, & it just goes regular mode after a while, without winston having to figure out one particular "right" thing for him to do it
as a bonus, they could both be in a loop here lol, i.e. both aware of as much, but that just sure adds a lot of extra chaos, and, again, i don't think rian would change lol sooo. not Herself, not b/c of anything winston does. so really it's like, the same journey for winston, just potentially more difficult, if rian's decided like oh yeah i have to pat you on the head the right way or something? but where then it's just put on winston some more, like, you have to respond right, you have to not fuck up the "moment" we'd have here, what can You do differently....like, maybe rian could have some revelation here, i've sure thought about a scenario like that for non looping situations, but even in that case, if it involves winston, he'd have to be hurt in a way that registers Externally to Others like oh yeah i guess that's "objectively" bad....which they still might not, b/c it's winston, and obviously it puts winston Through It, what else is new, but, and then it's like, idk, maybe rian can have a flicker of real self questioning but, At What Cost, and then, again, wanting winston to just like get to walk away and not have to play a part to serve rian's journey(tm), which, don't even think one incident, even a jarring one, wouldn't quickly be pushed into "place" and like justified / smoothed over by the perspective she already has. dunno how she would change, but she'd have to actualy want to, & try to, & it couldn't be through winston saying shit the perfect way when she just inherently doesn't listen to him, and that winston's made to feel like the person who's Responsible, bringing it upon himself, being the one who's acting & existing "wrong," while rian (& others) merely have their Inevitable Reactions to him....but he should get to realize the way it Isn't his responsibility, actually, he's the one interested & trying, rian (& others) are not. not about to Put That On Him, and like, similar to "what else is new?" rian's been day in & day out Like This towards winston, with varying interactions with him, some even almost as though they're actually peers, And yet. winston's Been tormented & negatively affected like [years of this day in & out] like lol lmao well who cares though, we don't think about how he's a person inside just like us, including how he feels or how his life is when we're walking away leaving him alone in a room after hurting him as much as possible to feel better in turn & try to force him back in line
imagining some kind of like "okay but would provide some kind of 'cue' with more of a resolutiony vibe" here like well hmm. one day he happens to go for a meandering [new places / explore] walk and maybe he stumbles across an eatery he'd been to once like oh shit i remember i loved xyz item, maybe it's new to him and then he Discovers a fave. maybe he visits the math museum. he has a brief winsome interaction with a random person of mutual total delight without trying to "act right." these kinds of things, several of them. i do like him re/discovering some especial treat & partaking of that. or maybe it's not even just very especial lol, the spirit of deciding to give himself little a treat, as a treat, despite no indication from the universe or anyone else that he did fuckall extra "right" to have earned it. nothing even shifting right there, just have the rest of a day, go to sleep, it happens to be the next morning now, nice
#winston billions#riawin#the several disparate zany media reflections of relatively recently to go ''hmm the time loop you can't end &/or shouldn't be trying to....#at least in the way you're 'supposed' to so far as you can tell''....#the agonies of [okay the way that a story starting out like ''so This isn't a love story; alright?'' is always always a promise that it is]#put my head in my hands trying to start a book like ohhh no. then i wasn't enjoying it / intrigued insofar as; when like chapter 5 or w/e#was like ''sooo tehe remember how i said this isn't a love story? introducing the love story'' like i'm out lmfao#then my reflecting upon skinamarink like literally so true. while ofc not being literal but metaphors work better like here is the pov#which you Must accept the situation & limitations & Emotional Realities Of Those Even Involved manifested into Literal realities#it Is forever so far as you know! say it's just a few decades :) (a) You Don't Know That & (b) you're like 4? that is Many Lifetimes#damn if it's not [day in & day out] and/or the way you know that It Could Be#horrors of time loop is easy to stick on to like. say winston's trapped in rian's lmfao well that's wretched#either he does just have to take on responsibility. &/or likewise just have to go along & endure....what else is new??#also going like hey....13 yr cicierega loop? so i didn't watch fionna & cake but ooh Metanarrative huh. kept tabs & got gists like Word....#winston's ''correct'' time loop strat? do fuckall. he's just out here
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nothingunrealistic · 10 months
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jumping off of this post comparing and contrasting taylor & wendy with winston & rian (among other things), let’s consider: taylor & philip vs. winston & rian. an established character is good at their job but isn’t particularly liked or loved by most of their coworkers. a new character joins the firm and is just as good at the same / a similar role, if not better, and soon enough is more beloved. the established character, feeling threatened, adopts a [write them a letter that just says “get out of my school”] attitude toward the new character. less room for [taylor’s / axe’s] people and more for [wendy’s / prince’s], et cetera. consider also: winston pointing out taylor is rewarded for confidence while he’s deemed aggressive for it (or obnoxious, if you ask rian), and philip entering moments later to criticize taylor’s approach for being too aggressive.
where things diverge is philip ultimately opting to work with taylor as often as he can and to treat them like a respected peer, rather than deciding to kick them around whenever he feels like it. probably helps that taylor owns their own fund and isn’t going to have it taken away just because philip’s book does better than theirs one quarter. that gives them more power and a more stable position than winston, who as far as we know doesn’t have anything more solid than “head of the quants, maybe, once upon a time,” and then “still a quant, who taylor made an effort to keep around that one time, but certainly not their favorite.”
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nothingunrealistic · 1 year
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Collections of ficlets based on prompts and originally posted on Tumblr. Each entry in the series centers on a relationship or character from Billions.
can i interest anyone in twenty thousand words of assorted billions fic? featuring:
ben/winston
Ben and Winston have so much in common… including, sometimes, their bosses trying to destroy each other.
taylor/winston
Taylor hired Winston for a number of reasons, and compatibility was one of them.
tmc polycule
Taylor, Winston, and the people who love them.
taylor/lauren
Taylor and Lauren don’t get much time alone together, so they make the best of what they get.
rian/winston
Rian and Winston are a pair, and they get along great. Mostly. Sometimes. If Winston’s lucky.
taylor (solo)
Taylor won’t let anyone stop them from moving forward.
taylor & mafee
Taylor and Mafee have something that’s rare on the Street: a lasting friendship.
taylor/philip
Taylor and Philip make that effort to get to know each other better.
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i love this guy so much
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